Example sentences of "that she wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was partly because of events that were going on around me : Kathleen building towards her retirement and , as was to become highly significant , Katrina deciding that she wanted to make a move as well . |
| 2 | She had decided that she wanted to go to London , take some A-levels up there , and then , she hoped , go on to university . |
| 3 | It was n't that she wanted to work in a sex shop but that she needed work of some kind . |
| 4 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 5 | But it was Phoebe that she wanted . |
| 6 | She could not be certain that she wanted it to be true . |
| 7 | Leaving the clinic she realised suddenly that she wanted to go to her garden . |
| 8 | Philip knew that she was irritated by his being there , that she wanted to be on her own . |
| 9 | Today she had something of her own that she wanted to do and she felt trapped . |
| 10 | At the beginning of each week she read through the Radio Times and TV Times and ringed the programmes that she wanted to see . |
| 11 | Despite herself , she found that she wanted to comfort the old woman . |
| 12 | It was not that she wanted to kill Simon any more . |
| 13 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 14 | Ludens thought , she 's a puritan ; and he felt a sympathy with her and would have tarried , as he sensed that she wanted to talk to him . |
| 15 | The phrasing got so slow and emphatic that you knew that she wanted you to listen to and weigh up every single word ; but you could n't tell if each word was freighted with anger , or bitterness , or joy ; it just came out with great , quiet force , and you had to work out its tone for yourself . |
| 16 | Elsie decided that she wanted to stay in Naples . ’ |
| 17 | The nearest she would get was that she wanted time , time to herself to think , to read , to find out how other people lived ; how they managed to live , how they managed to face up to the tragedies ; their scraping for a living ; and how they managed to cope with love . |
| 18 | After a period of normal grieving , my mother , who was then 74 , decided that she wanted to travel from Norwich to Northamptonshire to visit me , a journey of about 100 miles . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was because she liked Brown Owl so much that she wanted her to marry someone rather special and wonderful . |
| 20 | For Mignon it often meant more and her coworkers realize , looking back with the wisdom of a long lifetime , that she wanted a lesbian relationship with more than one of them . |
| 21 | But Marian continued to feel for some time that uneasiness in the legs which she knew meant that she wanted to run , to get away fast . |
| 22 | Not that she wanted them , the flighty painted girls in the street . |
| 23 | Not that she wanted to ; the cold silence of the night was itself a release from the warm clammy room and her mother 's muttered claims on her , claims from which there would be no escape until death . |
| 24 | Lady Wilcox , the NCC chairman , told Valerie Grove of the Sunday Times in September 1990 that she wanted to see responsible lending and responsible borrowing . |
| 25 | Not that she wanted his love even now ; she did not-just his advice , just his financial acumen . |
| 26 | She would say that she wanted to walk alone on the headland . |
| 27 | Lee spoke simply , positively , but was aware that she wanted to hit Philippa . |
| 28 | Miss Zeta Jones , a most serious artist , was then upset over rumours that she wanted to be a rock star . |
| 29 | Royal author Andrew Morton said yesterday one of Diana 's closest confidantes was aware in 1986 that she wanted to end her marriage to Prince Charles . |
| 30 | But by August her feelings had turned full circle , she wrote that she wanted to kill both Hendry and his manager Ian Doyle — the nightmare had begun . |